Dailydave: Re: Firefox bugs

[Rob Lemos <lists () robertlemos com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 00:10 +0200, endrazine wrote:
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> Hello,
> > What's next? Spammers working with anti-spam companies? :>
> Well, no offense Dave, but aren't you a hacker working against
> hackers yourself ? ;) This schyzophrenia is part of the the process
> of living from your security research, right ?
The hackers-security relationship is not the same as the
spammer-anti-spam/security relationship. 

Calling someone a hacker defines their mindset, their approach to a
problem. A spammer is someone who has already chosen a certain path. A
hacker could be a spammer and vice versa, but I think the intersection
of the two would be a pretty small population. 

A hacker can have all sorts of ethics, but a spammer has already pretty
much chosen their ethical position.

-R

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